Blandine Bardeau

I am drawn to the idea that as artists, we are the channels for art pieces to be born. That there are realms where those beings dwell and somehow get expressed through us, their unique language being brush strokes, paper cut outs, clay, colour or form. As Clarissa Pinkola Estés puts it in Women who run with the wolves, one brings “an image from the unseen world into being”. My recent work speaks of the Divine Feminine, an energy that is very much of the Earth and of the body, an energy that has been suppressed for a long time in all of us, men and women alike. I believe that our future and the future of our planet depends on us reconciling with this energy, bringing it forth into the world, and re-balancing it with the Divine Masculine. My pieces are treasures that have been gathered from the ancient world. I love artists such as Joan Mitchell, Picasso, Cy Twombly and Wangechi Mutu.

I was born and raised in Toulouse, in the South of France, and I now work and live in South East London. I first came to London to study a BA in Fashion Design Womenswear at Central Saint Martins, and a few years later, after working as a free-lance jewellery designer, I went on to study an MA in Painting at the Glasgow School of Art. I was commissi...

· Masters in Fine Art Practice, Painting. Glasgow School of Art, September 2011/September 2012
· First Class B.A Fashion Design Womenswear, Central Saint Martins, London. Sept 05/June 09
· Art& Design Foundation (Distinction) Central St Martins. Sept 04/June 05

Past Group Shows & Art Fairs:

- (INSERT FEELING HERE) Group Exhibition with BleurArt at the Old Biscuit Factory in Bermondsey, February 26th & 27th

- October 2018: “The Other Art Fair”, Victoria House, London

- October 2017: “The Other Art Fair”, Old Truman Brewery, London

- “Art in the Forest” in collaboration with Forest plant shop, Arch 133 Deptford Market Yard, for DEPTFORD X Fringe Festival, 22nd September-1st October 2017, London.

- “Roy’s People Art Fair”, 14th-17th September 2017, Candid Arts Trust, London.

- “The Other Art Fair”, 5th-8th October 2017, Old Truman Brewery, London.

-Affordable Art Fair New York, with CaigerArt Contemporary and Liberty Galleries 29th March-2nd April 2017

-Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, with CaigerArt Contemporary Gallery. 9th-12th March 2017

-The Other Art Fair, The Old Truman Brewery, London. 6th-9th October 2016. The Other Art Fair is the leading UK Artist Fair.

-The Affordable Art Fair, London Hampstead, with Caiger Contemporary. 16th-19th June 2016

-Group Show with ArtSmart Contemporary “Launch #1 Pop-up Week,”, 10th-15th March 2016, Space W10, London

-The Affordable Art Fair, London Battersea, with Caiger Contemporary Art. 10th-13th March 2016
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